Curriculum Vitae - Justus Christiaan Roux
Title / Name
Prof Justus Christiaan Roux
Qualifications
BA (1967) BA Hons (African languages) (1968)
MA (African languages) (1972) Potchefstroom University for CHE
DLitt (African languages/General Linguistics) (1979) Stellenbosch University
Publications
41 previous articles; 46 conference proceedings;
1 book publication as co-author; 6 chapters in books; 9 Scientific reports
(As from 2009)
2009
The representation of vowel duration in Civili dictionaries. Lexikos
19, 197-206 (Co-author: HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)
2009
Perceived duration in vowel-length based Civili minimal pairs. South
African Journal of African Languages 29 (2): 216-226 (Co-author: HS
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)
2010
Incorporating speech synthesis in the development of a mobile
platform for e-learning, Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta,
pp 1507-1510. (Co-authors, P Scholtz, D Klop, C Povlsen, B Jongejan,
A Magnusdottir) (http://www.lrecconf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/index.html)
2010
Speech Synthesis in the mobile user interface. SSW7: The 7th ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Kyoto, Japan,
pp 328-331. (Co-authors, P Scholtz & J du Toit)
(http://ssw7.org/doc/ssw7_proceedings_rev.pdf)
2011
Perceived vowel duration in Civili: Minimal pairs and the effect of
post-vocalic voicing, Proceedings of 17th International Conference
for Phonetic Sciences (co-author HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)
2013
Electronic dictionaries for speech recognition, for its applications and
for speech synthesis. Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of
Lexicography: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and
Computational Lexicography. (Eds RH Gouws, U Heid, W Schweikard
HE Wiegand): 1091-1096. De Gruyter Mouton.
http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/175228
Master / Doctoral
studies supervised
(completed)
19 MA and 4 DLitt students completed.
Special awards /
recognition /positions
Research and travel grants
Research and travel grants raised in excess of ZAR35 million.
Research Stipends as Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(Germany): 1980,1987 1994.
Awards
Recipient of Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research, University of
Stellenbosch. (1999)
Recipient of Certificate of Acknowledgement of Leadership in International
Research from Vice-Chancellor, North-West University (2010)
Awarded life membership of the International Phonetics Association (IPA)
Recipient of Language science and language technology in Africa: A
Festschrift for Justus C. Roux. Stellenbosch: SUN Press. 362 pages. NdingaKoumba-Binza, H.S. & S.E. Bosch. (Eds).
Editorial Boards
Member of editorial committee of Journal of the International Phonetic
Association (JIPA). 1998- present.
Member of editorial board of Phonetica 2014- present.
Ombudsman: South African Journal of African Languages, 2007 – present.
National and international positions
Chairperson of the South African Technical Committee for the
Standardisation of Terminology and other resources SABS TC 37. 20032006; including
Member of South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of
ISO TC37 (Warsaw, Poland, 2005)
Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of
ISO TC37 (Beijing, China, 2006.)
Member of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting
of ISO TC 37 (Provo, USA, 2007)
Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of
ISO TC37 (Dublin, Ireland, 2010)
Member of Steering Committee for Language and Information Technology
(L&IT) development in South Africa. Department of Arts, Culture, Science
and Technology (DACST) and the Pan South African Language Board.
(PANSALB). 2000
Co-ordinator of the Advisory Panel on Human Language Technology
Development in South Africa, appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture,
Science and Technology. 2001 – 2002.
Member of the Steering Committee for Human Language Technologies
Implementation appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and
Technology. 2003 – (2009).
Member of HLT Expert Panel (HLTEP) nominated by the Minister of the
Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) for a period of five years to assist DAC
in deploying HLT Research and Development projects in South Africa. (2009
– 2014)
Member of Selection Committee of the Human Sciences Research Council
(HSRC) on Modern Languages, Arts and Information Science, responsible for
adjudication of national research and travel grants: 1989, 1990.
Professional organisations
Member of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA):
since 1980 in various capacitiesChairperson, Western Cape chapter of ALASA: 1980, 1984-1988.
Adjudicator for ALASA prizes for various publishers, 1986
Member of the Board and Executive of ALASA: 1986-1989, 1995-1997
Secretary to the National Executive of ALASA 1995-1997.
Member of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of the International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2007 – present.
Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA);
2000- and Member of the International Affairs Committee of ISCA as well as
Co-ordinator of the ISCA Sub-committee on Africa. 2006-2009
Management member of the International Committee for the Co-ordination
and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques
(COCOSDA). 2000- present and Representative for Africa.
Invited member to UNESCO Expert Panel for establishing a Cyber Network
for Language Learning, Beijing, China (March 2009) and member of final
report drafting team, Shanghai (May 2009).
Invited as South African International Contact Point for the FLaReNet
(Fostering Language Resources Network) project funded by the European
Commission, France / Italy. (2010)
Invited evaluator by the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie) for
the final evaluation of the Dutch-Flemish HLT-program (STEVIN) (March,
2010).
Member of the International Advisory Board of CLARIN EU network project
(2010-).
Member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.
Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Former B2/C1 rated researcher at the National Research Foundation (NRF)
Current / Previous
affiliation
2011-2014 Director of the Research Unit for Languages and Literature,
Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University (contract).
1969-1971: Junior Lecturer, Potchefstroom University for CHE
1972-2009: Various academic positions at the University of Stellenbosch,
inter alia as professor in African languages, vice-dean (Faculty of Arts) and
director of two interdisciplinary research entities related to language and
speech technologies..
Contact details
Justus.roux@nwu.ac.za (+27) 18 299 1490